The London bombings: Brits keep a stiff upper lip

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There’s nothing like British stoicism, said the London Daily Telegraph in an editorial. Londoners are getting on with their summer—eating ice cream, playing sports—as if terrorists hadn’t just murdered more than 50 of us and wounded hundreds. The city is not “experiencing the same collective trauma” that wracked New York after 9/11 or Madrid after 3/11. Instead, in the week after 7/7, London responded with “quiet restraint.” There was no racist reprisal against Muslims in Britain, who, of course, were victims of the fanatics just like all Britons. “Backlashes happen in panicky and volatile nations. We are not such a nation.” Rather than getting hysterical, we get defiant.

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